Dance, Architecture and Engineering

Adesola Akinleye is a choreographer artist-scholar, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University. Trained at Ballet Rambert, her career began dancing with Dance Theatre of Harlem, later working with UK Companies such as Carol Straker Dance Company and Green Candle. She creates dance works ranging from live performance that is often site-specific, to dance films, installations and texts including academic publications. She is a Research Fellow with Theatrum Mundi, visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Research Affiliate and visiting artist at MIT.

• List of FiguresPart One:LandingDance As Conversation with The SomaticFramework: In Conversation with ‘The Literature’Part Two:Chasing StillnessLingering In Dwelling, Residing in WanderingPart Three:The Art Of Infrastructure, Reflection Conversation with John Bingham-HallChoreography As Questioning The Knowable, Reflection Conversation with Liz LermanWhenness, Reflection Conversation with Richard Sennett‘I Am Going To Try To Be A Choreographer In The World’ Reflection Conversation with Dianne McIntyre GlossaryBibliographyIndex

This book's graceful articulation and detail enriches our understanding of dance. Akinleye's curiosity, expertise and sensibilities as a dancer and choreographer flow through her writing. I love the different tones of theory, experiential, description and conversation that she uses to paint a portrait of the making process. A fascinating and inspiring read.